Gaylene+Golden


 * SUMMARY: Joe Bills Reynolds performed an abortion on 21-year-old Gaylene Golden at his clinic in Oklahoma. She died on September 30, 1985.**

Dr. Joe Bills Reynolds (pictured) was a jack of all trades, doing a variety of elective surgeries, including [|safe and legal abortions], in his filthy clinic. Reynolds' anesthetist, age 60, had originally been hired as a janitor, and an untrained orderly was acting as his nurse. The operating room was littered with dirty cups and papers. Reynolds tried to collect $500,000 on his wife's life insurance after she bled to death after he opened 25-inch incision, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter. He voluntarily surrendered his Oklahoma license.

Life Dynamics identified 21-year-old Gaylene Michelle Golden on their "[|Blackmun Wall]" as the woman who died after an abortion by Reynolds. LDI reports that Reynolds performed the abortion on Gaylene in his Oklahoma City office on September 30, 1985. Due to a cervical laceration, Gaylene developed an [|embolism] -- both air and amniotic fluid in her bloodstream. This embolism killed her, leaving Gaylene's son motherless.

It's difficult to look at Reynolds and think that a criminal abortionist, like the one who killed Stanislawa Zagonski on this same date in 1904, could have been any nastier.

ADDENDUM: Reynolds' daughter, Shelly Reynolds, was charged with performing at least seven abortion without a license at her father's clinic after he was stripped of his own license. ("District Attorney Seeks Abortion Information, //The Oklahoman//, July 31, 1991)